A Raisin in the Sun Essay

Characterization and Practical Differences between Plays and Films as in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun When a human is subjected to trying times, it does not take long for one’s true colors to show. It was Alabama governor Bob Riley who said, “Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed”. In A Raisin in the Sun, a play by Lorraine Hansberry, the Younger family is experiencing struggles of their own. While the play conveyed this…

them to achieve those goals, some other search the way to achieve them even if they are alone. As many people can dream and make those dreams reality, they are also a group of people which their dreams deferred. With the example of the play “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, African Americans cannot dream or aspire to great things because of the environment of oppression that surrounds them, even if they do dare to dream. The dream of most of African Americans was freedom, that was…

Lorraine Hansberry was inspired to write the play “A Raisin in the Sun” not only because of her own real life experience, but also because of a poem she read by Langston Hughes. This play was first presented in 1959 and shows many of the problems and issues that divided American society. During this time period, social issues of African Americans were the main factor, and throughout this play it is very obvious that the Youngers’ are facing many of them. Racism is certainly the biggest social…

Walter Lee Younger, one of the main characters from A Raisin in the Sun is a desperate dreamer that strives to be able to take care of his family. Walter experiences the most change out of all the characters throughout the the play. The play tells the story of Walter and his family as they struggle to survive the abounding hardships that a black family faces in the 1950s in Chicago. Throughout the play, he makes countless decisions that hurt the members of his family and himself, but by the end…

Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park and Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun have challenged society’s cognitive model and helped shaped the American culture we know and live in today. Throughout the 1950’s, America saw a rise in African-American families facing extreme racial prejudice, poor education, inferior standards of living, and lower incomes. In Fact, in the 1960’s the average African-American family had an income of $3,233, compared to an income of $5,835 for white families ("The Postwar…

The play “A Raisin in the Sun” has always intrigued my interest because of its theme: in order to achieve their dreams, people must accept themselves, the circumstances they’re in, and their family who support them, rather than focusing on the money they don’t have as a way to get what they want. Instead of already being middle-class, the Youngers want that American family lifestyle that is promised to all who live as American citizens. It is an ongoing subject of unfulfilled dreams that the…

Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a stereotype as “a standardized mental picture that is held in common by members of a group and that represents an oversimplified opinion, prejudice attitude, or uncritical judgment”. Stereotypes can be very harmful to the members of the groups that they are imposed upon. With everything going on in the world today, one should take a moment to look at the impact of stereotypes and the harm that they have caused and continue to cause, especially stereotypes…

A Raisin in the Sun A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a realistic fictional drama in which the play’s title and the actions of the characters represent the play’s theme. The play is focused on Black Americans struggles to reach the American Dream of Life,Liberty, and pursuing happiness ,During the 1950’s and 1960’s . The idea of everyone having the chance to achieve a better life should exist for all. Hansberry created her title using a line from Langston Hughes’ poem “ A Dream…

The play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, is about a poor African-American family living in a run-down section of Chicago in the 1950’s. The passage above is spoken by the father of the house Walter Younger, to his 20-year old daughter, Beneatha Younger. Walter is uneducated and has a thoroughly unsatisfying and poorly paid job as a chauffeur. His daughter Beneatha, is a college student who dreams of becoming a doctor, while sharing a cockroach- infested, decrepit and overcrowded…

A feminist perspective is describing the role and equality the men and women have in a story, play or movie. In the “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry the roles are quite reversed. In the Younger family racial tensions between the blacks and whites makes up a big part of their life. Lena Younger, a single mother (and grandmother) of Beneatha and son Walter along with Walter 's wife Ruth and son Travis all live in a run-down two bedroom apartment. A chance at a new beginning lies ahead…